Duilio Poggiolini

Duilio Poggiolini (25 July 1929-) was general manager of the National Pharmaceutical Service and a figure in the Tangentopoli scandal of the 1990s. He managed the whole healthcare fraud scheme until his arrest in 1993.

Biography
Duilio Poggiolini was born in Rome, Lazio, Italy in 1929, and he worked as a professor during the 1960s. In 1972, he became an Inspector General at the Ministry of Health, and he became an Italian representative to the WHO in 1982. Poggiolini was involved in corruption in the healthcare industry, and was the top man in the fraud scheme of the 1980s-90s; he upped the price of drugs and decided what went on the official drug list. He was also a member of the Propaganda Due lodge. On 20 September 1993, he was arrested in Lausanne, Switzerland due to a series of accusations related to manipulation and bribery in health service management procedures, and he was in prison until he was pardoned in 2006. However, he continued to have legal problems stemming from the Health Ministry's use of contaminated blood.